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I received the HMS Dreadnought not too long ago. Like all new ships they get their shake down cruise in Co-op, as well did the Dreadnought did with me. Was interesting, I did not have any BB's with this particular main battery arrangement so a little familiarization was expected and in order. No Co-op CV play was encountered so I didn't really think much about it.

Today while looking around my port I thought, hmm we'll try random. Low and behold, a CV match my Dreadnought was placed in I thought "Cool we'll see how this goes." I had a squad of dive bombers and torpedo bombers from a enemy Langley flying my way. I go to click on the closest one to focus on and.... Nothing lol. I was saying, "Whaaaa???" I tried again, same outcome. It was at that moment I had my "Oh crap, this is going to hurt." moment. After taking some dive bombs/fires followed by torpedos/flooding, I hit repair and sail away as fast as I can. We ended up losing the match and I go back to port to read what I just learned in the match. No AA.

I'm not selling the Dreadnought, I love the historical significance. However, she will probably be relegated to Co-op unless special missions are issued requiring her service in Random.

But Dreadnought had AA guns historically; I don't see why Dreadnought in game shouldn't have some AA, especially when she can face planes at her tier. Same thing with her speed; she sails at 21 knots historically but 19 knots in game.

But Dreadnought had AA guns historically; I don't see why Dreadnought in game shouldn't have some AA, especially when she can face planes at her tier. Same thing with her speed; she sails at 21 knots historically but 19 knots in game.

Wait... she had 18-inch torpedo tubes?

There should be a little AA even if it is only a couple of MG's on either wing of the bridge but the torpedo tubes were fixed and under water and required the ship to slow to 5 knots or less.

There were also QF 12 pounder 18 cwt guns for AA and defense against torpedo boats (just copying what I'm reading from wikipedia).

Yeah, I knew she had better AA than that but it seems we have the 1906 AA which was non-existent since the 12 pounders wouldn't have had high angle mounts then so just like the Arkansas Beta the AA consists of the cook throwing yesterdays biscuits.